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Opponents stay put

Turkey: The prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, returned from a visit
to north Africa to deal with protests across the country that have killed at
least three people, including a police officer, and injured thousands.
Addressing about 10,000 supporters from an open-top bus, Erdogan said:
“These protests that are bordering on illegality must come to an end
immediately.”

Crowds began gathering in Gezi Park, Istanbul, several days ago to protest
against the building of a new shopping complex and are still there. Erdogan
vowed to press ahead with the plans.

Manning in court

America: An army private was accused of aiding the enemy by passing
thousands of military and diplomatic documents to the WikiLeaks website.
Prosecutors in a court martial at a military base near Baltimore said
Bradley Manning, 25 — who was arrested three years ago in Iraq — had
“systematically harvested” a trove of secret documents, some